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(No Model.)

W. COOPER.

PAPER AND LETTER FILE.

No 384,892. Patented June 19, 1888.

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WARD COOPER, OF LA PORTE CITY, IOWA.

PAPER AND LETTER FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,892, dated June 19,1888.

Application filed January 25, 1888. Serial No. 261,885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WARD COOPER, a citizen of the United States,residing at La Porte City, in the county of Black Hawk and State ofIowa, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Paper and LetterFiles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in paper and letter file's; and itconsists in the construction and novel combination of parts, hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the appended claim.

in the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the device closed.Fig. 2 is a similar view of the device open.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the base or backpiece, to which the wires are attached.

Bis a hook that stands with its point upward, and has its vertical shankor rear arm rigidly secured to the back-piece at b. The point I) of saidhook is conical and regular.

0 is a wire retaining-frame similar to that of which the hook is madeand having avertical arm, d, which is journaled in metallic loops a,secured to the baek-piece.

Above the highest loop the wire frame O bends horizontally and curvesoutwardly and toward the hook, forming an arm, D. When abovethehook,thesaid arm bends downwardly in a curve, d till it becomes vertical, andhas in its end a socket, (1, into which the point b fits closely, thewires being of the same diameter, and the wire frame O set so as tospring down on the hook and hold tight the joint between the point b andsocket d.

If desirable or convenient, the wire and hook may be attached by themeans described directly to the side of a desk or to a counter; but itis preferable to have the base-piece, which allows the device to be putin place and removed more easily and with more dispatch.

It is evident that the wire serves as an effect ive guard to preventdisplacement of the papers on the hook, and when necessary to add a newpaper thereto the wire can be lifted and turned off, the paper put inplace, and the wire again placed on the hook.

Should it be necessary to remove and examinea particularpaper,thosethereabove can he slipped off the hook upon the horizontal arm D ofthe wire frame. The wire frame can be then turned off and swung away,the paper removed, consulted, and replaced, and the wire frame againturned on thehook and the papers thereon brought to their originalposition above the paper consulted, so that thus the order on the fileis not disturbed.

Having described my invention, I claim- The improved letter and paperfile herein described and shown, comprising a horizontal base, avertical shank secured rigidly thereto near one end, and theretainingframe consisting of a wire bent to form a vertical armjournaled to the opposite end of the base, then bent outward from thebase, then horizontally toward the hook, and then vertically downward,and having asocket in its end to engage the point of the hook, as setforth.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signaturein presence of two witnesses.

WARD COOPER.

Witnesses:

M. L. OUMMINs, J. S. GIVEN.

